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THOMAS MORTON AND VILLIAM PEARCE, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND; SAID MORTON ASSIGNOR TO SAID PEARCE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 462,362, dated November 3, 1891.

Application filed May 25, 1891. Serial No. 394,005. (No model.) Patentedin England April 4,1891, No. ,791; in France May 2, 1891, No. 200,035, and in Germany May 8, 1891,1To. 3,232.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, THOMAS MORTON and VILLIAM PEARCE, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, and both residents of 52 Hylton 5 Street, Birmingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Gulf-Button or Stud, (for which we haveapplied for Letters Patent in Great Britain, bearing date April 4;', 1891, No. 5,791; in Germany,

`1o bearing date May 8, 1891, No. 3,232; in France,

bearing date May 2, 1891, No. 200,035, and in Austria-Hungary, bearing date May 2l, 1891,

number not yet known,) of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in cuff-buttons or stud-s in which hinged wings are employed to automatically open or close upon its insertion into or removal from the button or stud hole; and the object of ourimprovements is to construct a cuff-button or stud that shall facilitate attachment or detachment and furnish a better and simpler arrangement of construction than in those of present make.

The accompanying drawings illustrate our improvements, in which- Figures l, 2, and 4 are detailed front edge and back views of oneof the wings. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of the wing on line 1 2, Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and G are detailed front and side views of the spring. Figs. 7 and 8 are front and side views showing the wings and the spring put together. Fig. 9 is a central sectional view of the wings and the spring on line 3 4, Fig. 7. Figs. 10 and 1l are front and edge views of the bearing-pillars. Fig. 12 shows the wings, the spring, and the bearing-pillars put together. Figs. 13, 14, and 15 are detailed front, end, and plan views of the tubular slide. Fig. 16 is a plan and edge View of the @otter-pin for securing the sliding tube to the spring. Figs. 17 and 18 -are front and edge views showing the parts thus far mentioned put together. Figs. 19 and 2O are detailed plan and sectional views of the platform-disk. Fig. 2l shows in sec- -tion the platform-disk connected to the previous parts. Fig. 22 is a plan view and Fig. 23 a sectional View on line 5 6, Fig. 22, and Fig. 24 a sectional view on line 7 8,

Fig. 22, of the base by which the whole is attached to the cuitbutton or stud head or front. Figs. 25 and 2G show a part-sectional elevation and an inverted plan of the coniplete cuff-button or stud. Figs. li to 26, inelusive, are each of an enlarged size in order to show more clearly their respective parts and positions. Fig.27 shows the cud-button or stud in natural size, ready for insertion, and Fig. 28 shows the same after insertion.

A is the wing, (two of which are used,) having pivots a a., upon which it is made to swing, and also having a cut-away part b, in which is carried the bearing c.

d is a projection which forms a stop, which when the wings are open, Fig. 28, prevents their passing below the horizontal level.

E is the spring. Two of the wings are passed onto the spring, (see Figs. 7, 8, and 9,) the hook part e being passed over the bear- 7o lng c.

F is the bearing-pillar, having pivot-holes f f, which are passed onto the pivots a ct of the wings, (see Fig. 12,) and having also a depressed opening g, for purposes hereinaf- 75 ter explained. l

G is a tubular slide having an opening or sloth and a disk t'. This tubular slide is now passed onto the bearingpillars, duc., (see Figs. 17 and 18,) and secured thereto by the So cotter-pin H, passing through the slot 7L and the opening k in the spring E. It will be seen that by the sliding action of this tubular slide G the wings are madeto open or close by reason of the spring F. (which is connected thereto) acting upon the bearings c c, the wings A A turning upon the pivots ct a.

I is a platform passed over the tubular slide, covering the cotter Il, and then having its edge closed over. (See Fig. 21.)

J is the base to receive the lower end of the bearing-pillars F, having recesses ZZ to receive the shoulders m m of the pillars (see Fig. 10) and a hole fn. for the depressed part g (see Fig. 10) to pass through. A-second cotterI-I 95 is then passed through the depressed partg underneath the base J, when the whole is secured. (See Figs. 25 and 26.) -This base .I

is now further secured to any button, stud, or solitaire front K, (see dotted lines, Fig. 25,) Ioo That We claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-v In a QuE-button or stud, the combination of the body K, base J, bearing-pillar F, WingsA A, lend springE with the tubular slide G, having at disk i, Covered by the platform I, substentially as set forth and shown.

THOMAS MORTON.

- WILLIAM PEARCE.

. YVitnesses:

CHARLES T. POWELL, ERNEST W. JONES. 

